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The tale of Palestine from beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve. Pappe and Chomsky, “On Palestine”, 2015. It has now been one year since Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians; one year of
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My father said that war was evil, but if it came he would revel in it like sand in a storm. —Nnedi Okorafor, «Binti». war is here, in your house,war walks with youon the way to work,when you stop to smokewar too stops, and stays by,war is interested in you, you see,and walks with you
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If you are privileged enough to live with a source of income in a first world country, it’s possible to maintain this illusion that violence is something that happens far away—in time, space, class: it happens to other type of people, to poor people who live in distant countries, in wars we read about in
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I would like to tell two anecdotes. Put a pin on these, they will be relevant later.
(A provocation/response to „Der schwarze Block als Taktik, nicht als Lifestyle“; or, an outsider view of the German antifa movement in the 2020s.) Content warnings: discussions of violence; paraphrases of fascist rhetoric; fashion and other girly things; Discourse.
Hello friends! Have y’all heard of the Zapatistas? So ok, the Zapatistas are an indigenous-led, anticapitalist, autonomist movement in México. They seized land back from the Méxican government, as in by force, as in with guerillas, guns, everything, back in ’94, and then implemented stateless, ecological, bottom-up democracy. They’re still there in Chiapas, resisting. The
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We could not find a group we wanted to be in, so we’re starting our own. This list is a collective chorus of the lacks we felt in our scenes, and how we’re fulfilling them. They do not describe what are our politics; they describe how we want to politics.